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Sunday, June 19, 2005

did humans evolve in fits and starts?

Associate Professor Evan Eichler at the University of Washington in Seattle thinks so.
Humans may have evolved during a few rapid bursts of genetic change, according to a new study of the human genome, which challenges the popular theory that evolution is a gradual process.

Researchers studying human chromosome 2 have discovered that the bulk of its DNA changes occurred in a relatively short period of time and, since then, only minor alterations have occurred.

This backs a theory called “punctuated equilibrium” which suggests that evolution actually occurred as a series of jumps with long static periods between them.
Read the whole New Scientist article here.

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

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